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October 30, 2007

Juvenile Instructor’s “The Future of Mormon Publishing”

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The Juvenile Instructor, observing that the University of Illinois Press has been at the forefront of Mormon Studies publishing but has recently lost an acquisitions editor in that discipline to […]

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October 29, 2007 (November 19, 2007)

Memorial reading for poet Len Roberts

author events poetry

University of Illinois Press author Len Roberts passed away on May 25, 2007, prior to the publication of his latest book of poetry, The Disappearing Trick. Yesterday’s edition of Morning […]

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October 29, 2007 (October 29, 2007)

Just Landed: David Nicholls’s “John Cage,” Leslie L. Lewis’s “Telling Narratives,” and Susan Gelfand Malka’s “Daring to Care”

music new books

Three new books just landed on my desk: –John Cage by David Nicholls is the second volume in our recently inaugurated American Composers series. –Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American […]

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October 26, 2007 (November 19, 2007)

“Live Fast, Love Hard” launch party at Ernest Tubb’s Midnite Jamboree

author events music

We have a blowout launch party planned to celebrate the publication of Diane Diekman’s new book Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story. Nashville’s Ernest Tubb Record Shops have […]

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October 25, 2007

Aptheker in The Nation

reviews

The November 5, 2007, issue of The Nation magazine includes an article about Bettina Aptheker and the alleged abuse that she suffered at the hands of her father, Marxist historian […]

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October 23, 2007 (November 19, 2007)

“Slumming in New York” in Connecticut

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The New Britain Herald in Connecticut interviewed University of Illinois Press author Robert Dowling about his new book Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem, which explores […]

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October 23, 2007 (November 19, 2007)

Wall Street Journal reviews “Air Castle of the South”

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The October 17 issue of the Wall Street Journal praised Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City writing, “Havighurst has done […]

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October 22, 2007 (November 19, 2007)

New Groove by Stephen Cramer

author commentary poetry

Stephen Cramer is the author of Shiva’s Drum, a National Poetry Series winner. He teaches in the creative writing program at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. His new book, […]

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October 18, 2007 (December 19, 2007)

Burl Ives: “Solidarity Forever” by Bucky Halker

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Bucky Halker is a songwriter, performer, labor historian, Senior Program Officer of the Illinois Humanities Council, and a Producer of the Folksongs of Illinois CD series that the University of […]

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October 16, 2007 (November 19, 2007)

Following a Hunch about Tomatoes by Andrew F. Smith

author commentary food

Andrew F. Smith is a freelance writer who teaches culinary history and professional food writing at the New School in Manhattan. He is the author of many books, including The […]

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October 15, 2007 (November 19, 2007)

Just Landed: Tom Goyens’s “Beer and Revolution”

new books

A copy of Tom Goyens’s new book Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 just landed on my desk. The official publication date is November […]

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October 15, 2007 (December 7, 2009)

Confessions of a Retired Copy Editor, Part 1 by Mary Giles

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Most copy editors don’t plan to be copy editors. We plan to teach math, philosophy, art history, or maybe the third grade; report the daily news; or perhaps travel the […]

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